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It seems to me that the dynamics are great - two months ago I would have told you that gas for heating is 2000% more expensive.

It won't be as much now, but it will still be expensive.

All fuels are getting more expensive, maybe the electricity just isn't getting more expensive, but the question is what kind of device do people use for heating.

With one blow, you can rack up huge bills.

This was stated by Georgi Angelov, senior economist at the Open Society Institute.

When asked whether there would be a difference in the price of electricity if the Belene NPP was operating, he commented: "The current price of the Kozloduy NPP is low because all its costs have already been paid.

Large sums have yet to be paid for the Belene NPP, and this prevents energy from being cheap.

If the plant were working now, it would not lead to a price correction.”

 "In August and September, when gas was expensive, people did not heat.

They compare it to the previous November and December, and then the price was like this.

The same month of the previous year was cheaper, that is the problem", he believes.

He also explained the increase in the price of pellets: "A lot of people were scared by the high price of gas, they said to themselves, 'let's buy pellets', there was an excess demand in the absence of supply, and this raised the price of pellets."

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"You know energy poverty depends on the price of energy - because it's higher, fewer people can afford it, on income and what the building is like - whether it's insulated, etc.

The price of energy has been rising recently, incomes - not so much.

We need energy and financial measures, the question is how to finance the latter", he said.

"It seems to me that we have been very generous in helping businesses.

We give funds to all businesses - even the inflation-creating ones that profit from the crisis.

We have to stop this, we have to move them from businesses to households.

We even support "Lukoil", he also commented.

He also discussed the dual electricity tariff: "In theory it works, but in practice it doesn't.

The problem is that this applies at the meter level, but everyone can find as many meters as they want - in the garage, on the second floor, on the third floor.

You can use the help like this 18 times.

While this is at the meter level, it just doesn't work.

If it's at the EGN level - we know who we're helping, then it's completely different."

"Almost all the time the free market was cheaper and that's why all the companies wanted to go to it. Now in the crisis it's the opposite. in a crisis we have to do things that solve the crisis. Long-term measures work in the long term, but look at the situation - 20 years the free market has always been cheaper, and that was the idea - for households to come to it, so that it would be cheaper for us. We have an excess profit in energy - why raise the price for people? There is no need for that," added Angelov.

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